Teen Accused of Smoking Pot Outside Police Chief's Home

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Villa Park's police chief last month allegedly made a pot bust right outside his home.

Robert Pavelchik said he was heading home on Sept. 13 when he saw 18-year-old Max Salling and a friend smoking marijuana in a car.

"I like to say I know most of my neighbors and friends, so I got out of my car with a flashlight in one hand and I said, ‘What are you guys doing?’” Pavelchik recalled. "They’re blowing dope when I come home from work, right in front of my house. ... I smell the dope and I see the (smoking) pipe and the bag of dope on the floor, what we call in plain view."